Benedikt Erlingsson (born 31 May 1969; Reykjavík) is an Icelandic actor and theater and film director. He graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 1994 and has been with the National Theater of Iceland for most of his career. He has directed two feature-length films, both of which have won the Nordic Council Film Prize.

Filmography

• Góðir Íslendingar — Guest Star
• The Danish Woman — Balding Thug, Writer, Director, Creator
• 2024Touch — Dr. Stefánsson
• 2024When the Light Breaks
• Blackport — Steingrímur
• 2021Hver drap Friðrik Dór? — Bróðir Símon
• 2018Woman at War — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 2018Áramótaskaup: 2018
• 2016Poor Iceland — Producer
• 2016Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe — Halldor Laxness
• 2016Áramótaskaup: 2016
• 2015The Show of Shows: 100 Years of Vaudeville, Circuses and Carnivals — Director
• 2013Of Horses and Men — Director, Writer
• 2011Polite People — Þorgeir
• 2011Volcano — Pálmi
• World's End — Búi
• 2009Circledrawers — Mozart
• 2008The Higher Force — Snati
• 2008The Nail — Director, Screenplay, Co-Producer
• 2007Parents — Police man
• 2007Rattlesnakes
• 2007Thanks — Director, Writer
• 2006She Talks Icelandic
• 2006The Boss of It All — Interpreter
• The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey — Flykaptajn
• 2003Njalssaga
• 2002Memphis
• 2002The Lost Little Caterpillar — Narrator
• My Life as Bent — Haraldur, Linettes kæreste
• 2001The Seagull's Laughter — Hilli
• 1998Doomsday
• 1998The Dance — Hólófernes
• Fóstbræður

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2011The Viking Sagas — Himself